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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley edited by John Symonds & Kenneth Grant
£300.00
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography, edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant, is a comprehensive, single-volume 1969 edition of the notorious occultist’s autobiography (originally intended as six volumes). It details his life from a strict Plymouth Brethren upbringing to his initiation into magic, world travels, mountaineering, drug experimentation, and development of Thelema.
Hardback, First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
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Early Poetic Works (Deluxe Edition) by Aleister Crowley
£350.00
Deluxe Edition – Aleister Crowley’s Cambridge Poetry (1895–1898)
Published by Kamuret Press in 2019
This sumptuous deluxe edition presents a remarkable collection of Aleister Crowley’s early poetic works, written during his formative years as a Cambridge undergraduate (1895–1898). Beautifully produced and strictly limited, this volume offers collectors and scholars a rare glimpse into the literary and emotional world of the young Crowley — before he became the most influential occultist of the twentieth century.
Full-bound in the finest Nigerian black goatskin
Spine foil-blocked in gold with five raised bands
Rounded and backed binding
Decadent purple colour plan-end papers
Purple and white headbands
Purple ribbon marker
Royal Quarto format
304 pages
16 pages of photographs (many previously unpublished) featuring Crowley, Jerome Pollitt, Aubrey Beardsley, Leonard Smithers and others
Also includes a previously unpublished facsimile of one of Jerome Pollitt’s photographic calling cards:
A striking and intimate addition for collectors of Crowleyana.
The Work
Though Crowley is celebrated as a giant of modern esotericism, comparatively little attention has been paid to his Cambridge years — a period in which he wrote and privately published a significant body of verse.
This anthology gathers four early works:
Aceldama: A Place to Bury Strangers In
Jezebel and Other Tragic Poems
Songs of the Spirit
The Tale of Archais: A Romance in Verse
These poems explore two themes that would shape Crowley’s life and legend:
his intense and ultimately doomed love affair with actor and female impersonator Jerome Pollitt, and his first serious steps toward the occult sciences.
Homosexual love and spiritual yearning intertwine throughout these verses, revealing a young poet influenced by the Decadent and Symbolist movements. Echoes of Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Symons and A. C. Swinburne can be felt in these pages — alongside the unmistakable voice of a writer already pushing against social and moral boundaries.
This edition is both a scholarly contribution and a finely executed work of bookcraft — ideal for serious collectors of Crowley, fin-de-siècle literature, LGBTQ literary history, and the occult revival of the late nineteenth century.
An exceptional volume for the discerning bibliophile.
Portable Darkness - An Aleister Crowley Reader by Scott Michaelsen (ed)
£35.00
Portable Darkness: An Aleister Crowley Reader, edited by Scott Michaelsen, is a comprehensive anthology designed to make the voluminous and often obscure writings of Aleister Crowley accessible to both novices and initiates. It serves as an introduction to Crowley’s philosophy, focusing on his intellectual work in occultism rather than just his infamous notoriety.
With forwards by Anton Wilson and Genesis P-Orridge
Published: Harmony Books, New York 1989
Condition: Very good, dust jacket unclipped in protective cellophane cover. Binding firm, pages clean and unmarked.
The Heart of the Master by Aleister Crowley
£60.00
Condition: A paperback in very good condition. Spine uncreased, binding firm, pages clean and unmarked.
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